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Sam - End Australia trip on a high

Posted on: Fri 30 Jul 2010

Rovers play their third and final match of the 2010 Sydney Festival of Football on Saturday.

The tournament has seen Rovers come up against Rangers and AEK Athens in their first two matches, but this Saturday evening's match sees them face hosts Sydney FC.

After defeats in the two previous games, Sam Allardyce is hoping to end to the four team tournament on a high, and also welcome back more senior players to the squad.

"Hopefully we can get a few more of the senior players out against Sydney FC on Saturday and finish our tournament with a positive win rather than the two disappointing defeats we've had," said the Rovers boss.

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"At the moment it is all about the senior players getting their match fitness up, but too many have been injured like Chris Samba and Niko Kalinic.

"Then we've got the World Cup players just coming back like Brett, Vince, Lars and Ryan.

"So we've got to get all those players back in the squad and then we become a different team.

"But at the end of the day I still know where we are light, we are still light on the front line and we still need to find a front man to buy before start of the season to give us a better opportunity to creating more chances against the opposition.

"We'll probably start Vince in the Sydney game, as well as Brett and we'll see what Ryan Nelsen is like as well.

"Hopefully Chris Samba and Niko Kalinic will be fit as well so all those players can come together and play at least a part of the game on Saturday which should make us a stronger team."

Kick-off at the Sydney Football Stadium is 19:20 local time, 10:20 UK time, live updates from the ground will be available on rovers.co.uk.

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